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H.R. 3313 (103rd)

Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994

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19 October 1993

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Became Public Law No: 103-452.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Women Veterans Health Improvements Title II: Care for Veterans Exposed to Toxic Substances Title III: Readjustment Services Title IV: Services for Mentally Ill Veterans Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993 - Title I: Women Veterans Health Improvements - Women Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that each Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility is able to provide in a timely and appropriate manner all authorized health care services to women veterans. Requires the provision of direct Department care (rather than by contract or other agreement) for women veterans in an area in which the number of such veterans makes it cost effective to do so. Extends the requirement for, and adds to the information required in, an annual report concerning women veterans health care and research. Prohibits mammograms from being performed at a Department facility unless it is accredited by a private nonprofit organization designated by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to prescribe mammogram quality assurance and control standards and to perform periodic inspections of Department mammogram equipment and facilities. Requires application of such standards to non-Department facilities or providers under contract with the Department. Requires the Secretary, in conducting or supporting clinical research, to ensure that women and minority veterans are included as subjects in such research. Extends through 1998 the authority for the provision of sexual trauma counseling to women veterans. Requires with respect to such counseling: (1) the availability of a toll-free telephone number; (2) appropriate training to Department personnel who provide counseling assistance; and (3) a report to the Congress on the operation of the telephone assistance service. Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 to require each coordinator of women's services to serve on a full-time basis. Requires such coordinators to be fully able to carry out their responsibilities and to provide women veterans with equal access to Department facilities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a survey to identify deficiencies relating to women patient privacy in Department medical centers; (2) correct any such deficiencies; and (3) report to the Congress. Title II: Care for Veterans Exposed to Toxic Substances - Extends eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or outpatient medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs to: (1) a veteran who may have been exposed to a herbicide agent while serving on active duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam era if the National Academy of Sciences has, in a report issued under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, made specified determinations regarding an association between exposure to a herbicide agent and occurrence of the veteran's disease; and (2) a radiation-exposed veteran if the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, based on advice of the Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards, determines that there is credible evidence of a positive association between exposure to ionizing radiation and the veteran's disease. Terminates eligibility for herbicide-exposed veterans under this Act after September 30, 1996. Title III: Readjustment Services - Authorizes the Secretary to furnish counseling in a vet center to assist any veteran who served in combat during World War II or the Korean conflict in overcoming the effects of such combat experience. Requires a report. Establishes in the Department the Advisory Committee on Veterans Readjustment Counseling to perform advisory services with respect to veterans' readjustment, taking into special account Vietnam era veterans. Requires reports. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees a plan for the expansion of the Vietnam Veteran Resource Centers program. Title IV: Services for Mentally Ill Veterans - Authorizes the Secretary to establish at any Veterans Health Administration facility a nonprofit corporation to: (1) arrange for therapeutic work for patients of such facility or other Department facilities; and (2) provide a funding mechanism to achieve such purposes. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the establishment of a board of directors for each such corporation; (2) the deposit of excess corporation funds; (3) annual reports by the corporation and the Secretary; (4) a prohibition against the establishment of such corporations after FY 1999; and (5) required recognition of such corporation within four years as a tax-exempt organization under Internal Revenue Service rules. Extends through FY 1998 (currently 1994) the Department compensated work therapy and therapeutic transitional housing demonstration program. Removes the 50-residence limit under the housing program, increasing such amount for each of FY 1994 through 1998. Directs the Secretary to establish a Special Committee on Care of Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans to carry out a continual assessment of the Department's ability to meet the treatment and rehabilitation needs of severely, chronically mentally ill veterans and to provide appropriate advice and recommendations after such assessment. Requires annual reports.

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